Orchids on Your Budget, or Live Smartly on What You Have

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Hillis, Marjorie. Orchids on Your Budget, or Live Smartly on What You Have. First Edition. 1937. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—front cover of jacket shows mild smudging, and jacket is price-clipped. Drawings by Winifred Mury. We recognize the irony of pricing a book about economizing at a price exceeding one hundred dollars. Yet, this is a delightful book, and it is difficult to find copies in an attractive original dust jacket. In it, Vogue editor Marjorie Hillis follows up her earlier effort, Live Alone and Like It, with practical advice. She proposes that economizing need not remove the elegance and glamour from one’s life. Chapters include “Well, Who Isn’t Poor?,” “Can You Afford a Husband?,” and “You Have to Eat.”

“The feeling of poverty isn’t a matter of having a small income so much as being behind on your bills, or not making your income stretch over the things you want. Not knowing how to pay the grocer can spoil even the taste of champagne. If it doesn’t, it ought to.” --Marjorie Hillis